Ángel D'Agostino

Muchacho

Ángel Vargas

Picked to highlight the double bass and D'Agostino's spacious piano texture behind Vargas's famously 'small' but exquisitely phrased voice.

Tango 1940 at 24:36

Tres esquinas

Ángel Vargas

One of the D'Agostino-Vargas classics most dancers already know, from the first batch D'Agostino recorded that year starting in July.

Tango 1941 at 24:13

Adiós, Arrabal

Ángel Vargas

Stenvoll changed his mind and played this dialogue song instead of the planned El Choclo, to show D'Agostino's softer, more relaxed sound after the high-energy tracks before it.

Tango 1941 at 26:57Only in the episode

Agua florida

Ángel Vargas

A tango whose strange bookend introduction was the opening for a talk on Agua Florida, the eau de cologne whose smell takes the singer back to the early days of tango.

TBY Lost Afterparty I - 1941 at 24:40

Traigan caña

Ángel Vargas

A heavy lyric about drinking away pain, with beautiful bandoneón work and a clean Tango Tunes transfer.

TBY Lost Afterparty I - 1941 at 27:50Only in the episode

El choclo

Ángel Vargas

Stenvoll's promised El choclo: the first recording with lyrics sung; also a subtle D'Agostino piano at the end.

TBY Lost Afterparty I - 1941 at 2:50:50

El Choclo

Ángel Vargas

Chosen for D'Agostino's unusually clean, spacious 'crystalline' piano playing on a classic number.

Tango By Year, by year at 2:30:12

A la carta

Ángel Vargas

Opens the show with a lesser-known D'Agostino/Vargas number about boys playing cards.

Tango 1942 at 5:18Only in the episode

Así me gusta a mí

Ángel Vargas

A playful milonga paired with A la carta; Lavocah notes D'Agostino's rare piano solo in it.

Tango 1942 at 5:29

Mano blanca

Ángel Vargas

A song that sounds romantic but is actually about a milkman's cart-horse with white hooves.

Tango 1944 at 42:27Only in the episode

Yo soy de Parque Patricios

Ángel Vargas

A D'Agostino-Vargas number to round out the pairing's 1944 showing, already represented once in the main show.

TBY Lost Afterparty II - 1944 at 14:47

Palais de Glace

Ángel Vargas

A second D'Agostino-Vargas title, back to back with the first.

TBY Lost Afterparty II - 1944 at 18:10

A pan y agua

Ángel Vargas

A bizarre 1920 tango about military service that starts normally and breaks into a fast milonga; Dag calls it perhaps the least danceable D'Agostino ever, kept for its crystalline piano.

Tango 1945 at 44:40

Hotel Victoria

Ángel Vargas

Afterparty: Lavocah plays it for D'Agostino's one-note piano introduction, which he calls one of the most perfect solos in tango.

Tango 1945 at 2:37:15Only in the episode

No vendrá

Ángel Vargas

Afterparty: a second D'Agostino and Vargas side from a year full of good ones.

Tango 1945 at 2:40:45

La Cumparsita

Ángel Vargas

The last year Vargas recorded with D'Agostino; chosen partly to showcase D'Agostino's crystalline piano introduction.

Tango 1946 at 2:01:57

El Morocho y el Oriental

Ángel Vargas

Named for nicknames of Carlos Gardel ('El Morocho') and José Razzano ('El Oriental', from Uruguay).

Tango 1946 at 2:14:44Only in the episode

Alma de bohemio

Tino García

D'Agostino's spacious, stretched-out phrasing on a song usually associated with Alberto Podestá and Francini-Pontier.

TBY Lost Afterparty III - 1947 at 41:39

Milonga para Gardel

Ángel Vargas

An unusually tender milonga wishing Gardel, dead since 1935, had lived to grow old instead of dying at his most famous.

TBY Lost Afterparty III - 1947 at 47:27Only in the episode

ChapterWhy D'Agostino's singer sounds like D'Agostino

D'Agostino wouldn't leave his cafe.

Tango 1949 at 27:47

Carnaval de mi barrio

Rubén Cané

A slower, glossier D'Agostino with reverb now added to the tape, and a singer who sounds like Ángel Vargas; set against the 1939 version with Rita Morales.

Tango 1954 at 28:56

Café Domínguez

D'Agostino's own composition, played with its famous glosa about a real, now-vanished café on the old, narrow Calle Corrientes.

Tango 1955 at 43:40